SITA CAVE, Sitamarhi

(Meskaur - IN)
24.800000,85.383300
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 31/05/2016

A man-made, monolithic troglodyte rock-cut chamber at Sitamarhi, about 10 km south-west of Hisua (N24°50': E85°25') consists of a »A cave hewn in a large isolated boulder of granite. Tradition relates that here Sita, the wife of Kama, gave birth to Lava while in exile« (IMPERIAL GAZETTEER (1907-1909, 12: 198-199).

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